Enewstime Desk
Agartala, January 24, 2020: Tripura Youth Congress held a rally in Agartala and urged Government to focus on ‘real issues’. Youth Congress activists also raised slogans against multiple issues including NRC, CAA, unemployment etc. AICC national secretary and Youth Congress in-charge Sri Krishna Allavaru, among others addressed the rally.
Focus on real issues: Youth Cong to Govt
Allavaru urged the state and the central government to focus on the real issues like unemployment, price hike etc. rather than advocating issues like CAA or proposed pan-India exercise.
“We want the respective governments to focus on the real issues—unemployment, price rise, corruption and poverty” he said in the sidelines of a rally organized by the state unit of Youth Congress in the city.
Thousands of people from different age groups participated in the rally. Participation of women and minority community in the rally organized to protest against the CAA and increasing unemployment rate had been also worth mentioning.
The national leader termed pan-India exercise of NRC and NPR as “ridiculous things” and said that these things had been pressed into action to divert attention from growing problems.
“We don’t want issues like NRC and NPR given too much attention instead of looking into the issues needed to be addressed at the earliest. The centre should focus on the issues directly connected to public interest. In Tripura, about 30 per cent of the total population is jobless but the government is talking about Pan Ki Dukan and Pakoda economics” he alleged.
“We are saying”, he added, “What is more important is to make national registrar for unemployed so that further plans could be chalked out”.
Anti-CAA slogans
The rally was also loaded with anti CAA slogans with people holding placards against the contentious act and the NRC.
Later on, a public meeting was also organized in the city where TPCC president Pijush Biswas said that the party would never entertain indiscipline within the party and the Congress would surely snatch power in the forthcoming assembly ADC elections.
